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The FBI came to her on Monday with their plan, laid out in a wine-colored briefing book. That started a week of meetings, briefings, phone calls and more meetings in which Reno probed the motives and methods the bureau had laid out.
Then he vanished. At about 1 p.m., after the fire broke out, White House communications director George Stephanopoulos kept a safe distance from the issue at his regular daily briefing for reporters: "It's a decision by the Attorney General and the FBI." Like everyone else, the White House spent...
A RUSSIAN TRANSLATION OF A NORTH VIETNAMESE REPORT HAS been grabbing headlines because of its suggestion that Hanoi held more American POWs than it had previously revealed. So far, only a few pages of the report have been made public, but TIME has obtained the entire 25-page translation. Elsewhere...
When does humor in uniform become insubordination? Hanging in a Pentagon briefing room is a framed photograph of George Bush with a caption that reads, "Don't blame me, I voted for Perot." Next to that is a photo of First Lady HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON captioned "the Commander in Chief...
Morris, whose skepticism about Vietnamese intentions hardly makes him an enthusiastic supporter of normalization, has legitimate academic credentials. "I know it's an authentic document," insists Morris, who reads Russian and is a research associate at the Harvard Center for International Affairs. "These files were not for anyone else to...